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Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality
Marvin Carlson
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Description for Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality
Hardcover. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection, and throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display. In recent years theaters in Europe and North America have begun calling attention to the real in their work—presenting performers who did not create characters and who may not even have been actors, but who appeared on stage as themselves; texts created ... Read more
Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection, and throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display. In recent years theaters in Europe and North America have begun calling attention to the real in their work—presenting performers who did not create characters and who may not even have been actors, but who appeared on stage as themselves; texts created ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119851
SKU
V9780472119851
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About Marvin Carlson
Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature, and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, USA.
Reviews for Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality
A pleasure to read… the prose has Carlson’s usual clarity and force. While previous critics have noted the incursion of ‘the real’ into avant-garde performance, to my knowledge Carlson is the first to see this as a key driver of theatrical developments since the eighteenth century. One of the book’s virtues is that it integrates French, German, and Russian theatre ... Read more